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Makin It Work ~ In Tight Spaces

July 26, 2011

Today, wayoutnumbered is visiting Texas Chicks with another excellent post in her Makin It Work series. Thank you, wayoutnumbered! So if you’ve read the first two posts in my Makin It Work series, you may have sensed a theme here? As much as I would love for all my photo sessions to be filled with glorious [...]

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Overexposed Plus Out of Focus and Completely Happy

April 4, 2011

Is this image a digital photography mistake, or is it art? One skill that I continually practice is the ability to view my photos with an embracing and kind, thankful and non-critical eye. What I create is my own art, whether anyone else likes it or not. And if I create an image like the [...]

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Find the 2nd Catchlight, then Shoot

March 28, 2011

Catchlights, as we all know by now, are one of the most important elements in any portrait. And lighting your subject from the side is a common portrait technique in natural light photography, but one that can be a bit tricky. The problem, when shooting with side lighting, is that one side of your subject’s [...]

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Makin’ It Work ~ Using Window Light

March 24, 2011

Quick, where do you think these shots were taken? A. A fancy downtown studio with dreamy floor-to-ceiling windows bathing the model in lucious natural sunlight B. A fancy uptown studio filled with the coolest backdrops and high tech lighting equipment C. A swanky outdoor set-up styled by a designer on a perfect spring day with [...]

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Valentine’s Photo Ideas and a New Free Action from MCP

February 14, 2011

Details on the brand new free action from MCP are at the end of this post. I think that photo Valentines are a new tradition in our house. This is the card we’re passing out today. I saw a similar picture somewhere on the internet recently, but can’t for the life of me remember where. [...]

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The Most Enjoyable Photo Shoot Ever (Hiccup)

December 16, 2010

Food photography has a sub-genre that I had never thought about before. Cocktail photography. I think I could become a specialist. My friend Janis has written a book called Take a Shot. It involves a woman trying to find balance in her life after introducing marriage and children to a successful career. Sounds familiar, right? [...]

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Priceless

December 2, 2010

Shirt: backwards, inside out and unbuttoned Socks: mismatched Heart Shoes: on the wrong feet Beautiful soft light coming in from a window perpendicular to my subject A two year old who insists on dressing “BY MYSELF MOMMY” The biggest most beautiful brown eyes in the world. . . . . ….. yes, all priceless! What [...]

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6 Techniques for Capturing Sunbeams and Flare in Your Photos (And How to Save 30% on Your Own Personal Sun if these tips don’t work!)

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November 30, 2010

Photographs with sunbeams or flare are funny – some photographers consider them a mistake, others consider them art. I fall into the latter camp! I love the effect, and often enhance the sunbeams or flare that I capture, or fake them if I don’t. (To fake them, I use Kaleidoscope overlays. Tuesday, November 30, is [...]

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Fun Bokeh Toy

November 10, 2010

You might remember my post about trying to rig shapes on the end of my lens to create bokeh. I put a lot of time into my contraption. Not long after, I found this handy dandy kit that has everything ready to attach to your lens with a rubber band. No work involved. Couldn’t be [...]

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Photographing Kids? Find their Perspective

September 28, 2010

Photographing kids doesn’t, for me, always work as planned. Yesterday I took my daughter to the beautiful botanic gardens here in town, envisioning scores of lovely pictures with perfect smiles, cute poses, and “I love you Mommy” eyes looking right at my camera. What was I thinking? She’s two. She clearly had different plans in [...]

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TTV Photography (Through the Viewfinder)

September 9, 2010

TtV Photography experiments have been keeping me busy since the kids went back to school. My latest toy is an old camera that I bought mostly to work on Through the Viewfinder photography. TtV, as it’s called, is defined an an image taken by one camera through the lens of another. You can get great [...]

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Photography at Night – Tips & Tricks For Photographing Your Family in Low Light

August 26, 2010

The photography class I’ve been taking (Bring on the Night by Austin Photography Workshops) is wrapping up tonight. I will miss the class, and the 3 hours a week dedicated to practicing with my camera. There is simply nothing like an in person class for improving skills. The subject matter was way out of the [...]

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Create Photos with Heart Shaped Bokeh

August 7, 2010

Nighttime Photography is the latest class hosted by Austin Photography Workshops that I’ve participated in. I love it and have learned lots of juicy tidbits about getting great shots at night, some of which I’ll share next week. The lights at night have so far been my favorite subject for photographing, and this past week [...]

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Fireworks Photography Recap

July 26, 2010

Remember my fireworks photography checklist from the 4th of July? It worked really well and I am happy with my fireworks photos. In addition to my family, we were with a group of friends, two of whom are photographers also. We had a competition where we asked our other friends to judge whose photos were [...]

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